PERC: a nursing syndrome for AIDS.

PERC is an acronym and represents a proposed nursing syndrome for people with AIDS. It incorporates the NANDA human response patterns of perceiving, exchanging, relating and choosing. These patterns were identified through a review of literature on AIDS, especially that which addressed NANDA nursing diagnoses. The analysis showed that the most frequently used nursing diagnoses across various clinical areas were concentrated in the four human response patterns. Following an analysis of the concept, syndrome, PERC was seen as an appropriate way of consolidating those nursing diagnoses, signs and symptoms that the nurses will generally encounter in working with people with AIDS.